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Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by eliben »

ig1 wrote: post #36
alextingle wrote: post #15

Contract rates in London seem to be just shooting up. Two years ago £600/day was a "high" rate. Last year £700. This year several places are offering £850/day and I've heard rumours of £1000/day or more. If you want to live in Austria, why not work in London and just commute ;-)

I had an offer of over £1000/day a few months back (it's was for a C++ lead dev at a firm no-one wants to work at).

I'm not sure how £1000/day even makes sense. Isn't that like £20000/month, which computes to ~$400K/year? What am I missing? Is it only part-time because of consulting?

Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by bnoordhuis »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #10

I'm a developer living in Amsterdam. From what I see around (in job offers and my last two employments), the pay is around 50K EUR per year for a senior position. In the last company I was working there were also developers getting 60K. But they had around 10 years of experience.

Sounds about right. My base salary, no benefits, would be about 58K a year if I worked full-time. This is in Rotterdam, where salaries are slightly lower than in Amsterdam.

Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by djipko »

jqb wrote: post #45

Hi! :) I'm working in Poland (Python / Django / Java (in previous job)). 3 years of experience. My salary is ~ 10000$ / year. I've talk recently with friends who I've been studying with, and I earn quite nice comparing to them...

I would assume that you are either talking net income or you mistyped the number?

Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by jqb »

djipko wrote: post #53
jqb wrote: post #45

Hi! :) I'm working in Poland (Python / Django / Java (in previous job)). 3 years of experience. My salary is ~ 10000$ / year. I've talk recently with friends who I've been studying with, and I earn quite nice comparing to them...

I would assume that you are either talking net income or you mistyped the number?

Yes - I'm talking about net income. I've a small mistake: ~ 10.000 Euro (not $) / year this is ~ 14.000$ / year.

Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by xando »

patio11 wrote: post #2

Mainland Europe is a big place. (As is the United States, Japan, etc). There are huge, huge, huge disparities in income between e.g. programmers working finance in Paris and somebody cranking out back office code in Poland. I have no specific knowledge about the market in Vienna, but find it easily within the realm of plausibility. You'll still be making a 50% premium to e.g. some fairly senior developers in the Midw…

and Poland is not your target. I'ts quite sad, but and true.

Working as Python developer with 4 years of experience. Close to 23.000 eur(net), and used to think it's quite good, after this message it's no longer true. Thanks guys ;)

Re: Programmer salary in mainland Europe?

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Post by ig1 »

charlesdm wrote: post #41
ig1 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an offer of over £1000/day a few months back (it's was for a C++ lead dev at a firm no-one wants to work at).

I'm quite experienced with C++. Are these £850-£1000 rates common for C++ contract work in London?

No, £550-£750 is probably the norm, things in the £750-£1000 range do come up but generally in combination with some sector speciality or if a company is really desperate (not normally a good sign).
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